Microsoft’s AI leadership has sounded a public alarm about a new, unsettling pattern: as chatbots become more fluent, personable and persistent, a small but growing number of users are forming delusional beliefs about those systems — believing they are sentient, infallible, or even conferring...
Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has issued a stark public warning: engineers and executives are on the brink of building systems that look, talk and behave like persons — and society is not prepared for the consequences. In a wide-ranging essay published in August 2025, Suleyman framed a...
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Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...
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Microsoft employees have erected a protest encampment on the company’s Redmond campus, turning a high-profile workplace dispute over Israel ties into a public test of Microsoft’s ethics, governance, and operational transparency. protest is the latest escalation in a year-long campaign by...
Microsoft has opened an externally supervised review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s intelligence services used a bespoke environment running on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse very large volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — a development that...
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Microsoft has opened an externally supervised inquiry into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence used a bespoke area of Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse enormous volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls — a development that escalates a months‑long policy, legal and...
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Microsoft Research India is quietly assembling a bridge between foundational generative AI research and pragmatic, India‑scale applications — a hybrid of deep technical work (retrieval, multimodal benchmarks, energy‑efficient deployment) and collaborative, on‑the‑ground projects that target...
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Microsoft’s push to make AI the backbone of enterprise contract automation has moved from proof-of-concept to platform play, blending massive infrastructure bets, partner-led solutions, and an explicit governance narrative — all while forcing painful trade-offs across its workforce and...
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Microsoft has opened an “urgent” external review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a bespoke environment on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — claims that raise immediate questions about cloud...
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The case for treating ethical AI governance and human-centric design as core investment themes has moved from niche moral argument to clear strategic imperative, and the market is responding with capital, products, and policy. Recent industry forecasts and regulatory shifts show a rapidly...
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OpenAI’s latest model rollout and a disturbing medical case this month make for a cautionary, consequential moment: GPT‑5 promises sharper reasoning, faster answers, and fewer hallucinations, yet an ordinary user following AI diet guidance was hospitalized with a rare form of poisoning after...
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Headline: When the Chamber Teaches AI: What Logansport’s Workshop Means for Small Businesses
Deck: On Aug. 15, 2025 the Logansport Cass County Chamber of Commerce packed a room for an introductory AI workshop. That turnout — and the questions that followed — shows small and medium businesses are...
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Bellevue’s hospitality sector now faces a clear and measurable shift: routine, language‑heavy, and transaction‑focused roles are the most exposed to generative AI, and local workers who master hybrid human+AI workflows will retain the highest-value work while protecting wages and employment...
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Arkane Studios’ Lyon-based union has publicly joined calls for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, putting one of the games industry’s most respected studios at the center of a widening debate about cloud providers, AI, corporate responsibility, and the ethics of doing business in...
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Microsoft’s cloud business is at the center of a fraught ethical, legal and commercial storm after new reporting tied Azure to intelligence workloads used by Israel’s military, forcing a reckoning over what cloud providers can — and should — do when sovereign customers appear to repurpose...
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I asked Microsoft’s Copilot to book a dinner reservation for me so it could prove the central promise of modern AI agents: act on my behalf, not just answer questions—and it mostly worked, but with enough caveats to make clear this technology is still in its experimental phase.
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Canada’s world-class AI research and a thriving start-up ecosystem are finally producing measurable, mission-critical deployments — but the transition from lab to large-scale impact still runs up against procurement, regulation, skills and trust barriers that threaten to slow national gains...
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Microsoft’s Copilot family and developer tools have been upgraded to run OpenAI’s newly released GPT‑5 across consumer and enterprise surfaces, bringing a unified “smart” model-routing approach, deeper reasoning, and larger context windows to everyday productivity, code generation, and custom...
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Dow’s security team has quietly rewritten the playbook for a 125‑year‑old materials science giant by folding generative AI into daily operations — not as a flashy headline, but as a force multiplier that shortens investigation times, elevates junior analysts, and reshapes incident response...
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI offering is changing the calculus for enterprises that want cutting‑edge generative AI without the legal, security, and operational headaches that have historically kept the technology in research labs. The service packages OpenAI’s top models inside Azure’s...
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